1-800 Flowers Extreme Stacking: Amex Offers, Bonus Miles, Portals, Gift Cards & More
It's only a few days until Valentine's Day, so if you've been procrastinating and need to order a (somewhat) last minute gift, here are all the ways you can save and/or be rewarded when...
How to find the best Amex Gold bonus (75K, 60K + $250, 60K +...
For many, the Amex Gold Card is a great option to have and to hold. In exchange for the card's $250 annual fee, the Gold Card offers 4x points at US Supermarkets (up to...
A system for reminding myself to use credits and benefits
Last week, Amex shook things up with some fantastic dining and wireless credit offers on a variety of co-branded cards (See these links for the Hilton card offers, Marriott card offers, and Delta card...
Tax To The Max: Stacking Deals On Tax Prep Software
It's tax season - yay!
For several years, Greg has maintained a resource advising how to earn rewards when paying your taxes by credit card (see Pay taxes via credit card 2021 edition for more).
To...
Amex changes the game
On this week's episode of Frequent Miler on the Air, we discuss how Amex has changed the game pretty significantly in terms of how we extract max value out of credit cards -- and...
Amex derails my Hilton plans with great new offers (on my mind)
Despite their sad approach to pandemic breakfasts, I'm hoping to return to the Madison Beach Hotel in Connecticut later this year (see my bottom line review here). The bad news is that cash prices...
A trip down the Turkish Miles & Smiles rabbit hole
About a year and a half ago, we stumbled on one of the most amazing sweet spots in award travel when we published 7.5K each way to Hawaii: the sweetest spot we've been missing....
Hyatt Points Advance: The Globalist perk you didn’t know about
If you're a regular Frequent Miler reader, then chances are good that you either have Hyatt's top-tier Globalist status, are well on your way towards it, or have at least considered pursuing it. That's...
Amex’s preemptive retention credits mark a strategy shift. Will others compete?
People often justify keeping an Amex card because "I save at least $XXX each year in Amex Offers". Whenever I see Amex Offers used as a justification for paying the annual fee, I want...
COVID Credit Card Enhancements Ultimate Guide: Now with Amex dining & wireless credits…
The COVID Credit Card Enhancements Ultimate Guide has now been updated with the latest Chase Sapphire developments: Up to 10x Peloton, redeem travel credits for gas and groceries through the end of 2021, and...
Brex: How I earned 20K for depositing sales revenue
UPDATE 2/24/21: Multiple people (including our own Nick Reyes) have confirmed that simply adding your Brex Cash bank account to your PayPal wallet (even with a consumer PayPal account) is enough to trigger the...
Searching for Emirates sweet spots with partner airline awards [JAL, Copa, and Qantas awards...
UPDATE 3/2/2021: Emirates has completed their partner devaluations. Now all partner awards follow the same not-great distance based award chart. I no longer know of any good partner awards using Emirates miles.
UPDATE 2/1/2021: Emirates...
Hilton cards: Enhancements for 2021 (dining, wireless, and spend bonuses)
American Express today has launched awesome temporary perks for most of their hotel and airline co-branded cards. In this post I'll highlight the perks available to Hilton cardholders. In separate posts I covered perks...
Is the hammer about to drop on spending techniques?
Is your favorite bank about to start charging cash advance fees for your favorite types of purchases? You probably got an email this week alerting you to transaction types that will incur a cash...
